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__Vocabulary __ __Fad__- a temporary fashion, notion, etc. especially followed enthusiastically by a group. __Flappers__- young women in the 1920’s, who behaved and dressed in a boldly unconventional manner __Amelia Earhart__- U.S aviator: vanished in flight over Pacific ocean __Babe Didrikson Zaharias__- outstanding female athlete of the 1920’s

In the era of prosperity, jazz, and wild youth, known as the roaring twenties, women started to become more independent. Women began to be more noticed all over America. They became an important role in society, contributing their skills in certain areas such as __Babe Didrikson Zaharias__ who created a trophy for outstanding female athlete. As women became more independent, they reached for goals and opportunities no woman has ever done before. For an example, __Amelia Earhart__, who was the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic, encouraging women to follow their dreams. During this time period, styles began to drastically change as young women, flappers, began to wear short, loose-fitted dresses with a masculine short hair-do. __Flappers__ were young bold women who were known to be reckless, shaping what women have become today. These inspirational women and reckless __fads__ and styles defied the new women of the roaring twenties.



Women fashion changed dramatically in the 1920’s. After World War 1, the clothing of women began to be more colorful and bright expressing the prosperity and happiness in America at the time. After the war, American’s idea of what was beautiful changed. A plump person was considered unhealthy while a thin silhouette was more in style. The look of the 1920’s was to be thin with small hips, waist, and bust. The only body part that women wanted to now show off in this time period was their legs. The hourglass shapes were no longer in style. For some women who were overweight, it was hard to take on the new, modern flapper style. Rubber girdles could likewise flatter the stomach and hips. But since the main focus area of this time was the legs, there was not much an overweight woman can change about that. These were more challenging problems, causing women all over America to diet. Women no longer wore corsets or bustles, and began to wear more “boyish” clothing. The dresses became lighter, brighter and shorter than ever before. Since the dresses started to be shorter, the highest at the knee, shoes and stockings became a greater prominence now that they were more visible. Stocking now came in various amounts of different, bright colors and textures, worn by stylish women in this time period. In the time period known as the “roaring twenties”, the style of this period was to have a more “boyish”, masculine look. The dresses were worn in a loose and shapeless in fit. The waist disappeared, the shoulders broader, and the hair became shorter and shorter. Women who couldn’t afford the high fashion on the roaring twenties did corresponding school where they took dressmaking and millinery courses. If women weren’t into the frilly look of the 1920’s, they often went for a sleek look of pantsuits, hats and canes. This sleek style was named after the novel La garçonne by Victor Margueritte.

-Jackie H.

 Work Cited [] [] book: Flappers and the New American Woman by Catherine Gourley [] [] []



1920s flapper fashion has changed and influenced style forever. Some people think that if the 1920s could be summed up into one word it would be flappers. The term “flapper” was first used in Great Britain after World War I to describe young girls who had not yet entered womanhood. Flappers had both an image and attitude. Their attitude was truthfulness and fast living. Flappers were reckless and took many risks. They seemed to not want to let go of youth as if it were to leave them at any moment. It’s said that the day Coco Chanel put on an oversized man’s sweater and tied a scarf around the waist, the flappers fashion was born. Flappers were usually between the ages of fifteen and twenty five. The fashionable flapper had short sleek hair with cheek curls. They normally wore shorter than average dresses that were low cut and showed their neck, throat and sometimes more. The dresses were shapeless and they were skimpy and lightweight. They wore silk stockings that she would roll and twist just below the knee. Their fashion style emphasized straight lines. Some flappers were known to be cigarette smokers and cosmetic wearers. They also drank alcohol which was when the United States had prohibition. Flappers believed in equality. Not many Flappers cared about who ran the countries or factories. One of the most popular ways to pass time for flappers was dancing. Some of the dances were the Charleston, Black Bottom, and the Shimmy. People say that flappers “"trot like foxes, limp like lame ducks, one-step like cripples, and all to the barbaric yawp of strange instruments which transform the whole scene into a moving-picture of a fancy ball in bedlam." In the 1920s flappers cut their hair, dropped layers of clothing, wore makeup, and created the concept of dating. They created what people consider the “modern” woman. For more information click here :http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm



~Hillary M.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Amelia Earhart did not have an interest in air planes until she attended a stunt-flying exhibition. She had her first flying lesson on January 3, 1921 and bought her first plane which she named Canary six months later. One day at work, she got a phone call. It was an offer to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She left Trepassaey Harbor, Newfoundland on June 17th 1928. A little less than a day later, Amelia was the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. This news made worldwide headlines because a few other women died when they tried to do what Amelia had just done. When they came back to the United States, there was a ticket-tape parade waiting for them and a reception put together by President Calvin Coolidge.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">After that one trip Amelia’s life turned around. She placed third in the “Powder Puff Derby” She also got married to George Putnam on February 7, 1931. They tried to work together to make Amelia Earhart the first and second woman to fly across the Atlantic alone. Herbert Hoover gave Amelia a gold medal from the National Geographic Society. Congress also presented the Distinguished Flying Cross to her. Amelia Earhart was the first women to ever win that award. Earhart felt that her work proved that men and women could do the same “jobs requiring intelligence, coordination, speed, coolness, and will power.”

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Around the time Amelia was 40, she wanted to make one final trip. It was to fly across the world alone. Earhart took off on July 2 ignoring the overcast skies and rain showers. Earhart did not want to continue her flight so she called her radio system, ITASCA but could not hear her radio transmissions. They tried to call Earhart but she could not hear them. The last words they could hear from her was, "We are running north and south. “People spent four million dollars searching for Earhart but no one could find her. There are many places named after her all over the United States to show how courageous she was and how much she affected the world.

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====<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Babe Didrikson was a very successful woman. During her whole life she played a number of sports. Some of the sports she played were golf, basketball, and track and field. Babe lived a very athletic and very successful life. Babe Didrikson was born on June 26, 1911 in Port Arthur, Texas. Then in 1915 they moved to Beaumont, Texas and all the kids started to become great athletes on the “rustic gymnasium equipment” that there father had made in the backyard. Babe was an athlete her whole life but when she was a senior she was asked to join the semiprofessional basketball team called the Golden Cyclones to do office work. While she worked there she led the team to two finals and a national championship. Her amazing athletic ability promoted Employers Casualty and she was able to expand women’s sports programs beyond basketball. In 1932 she placed in 7 events at a track and field meet. For two events-the javelin and hurdle-she won a gold metal. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;">Basketball and track and field were only two of the sports that Didrikson played. Another sport she took upon herself was golf. She decided she wanted to become a championship player so in the summer of 1932 Babe decided to learn how to play golf. Then she had her first tournament in November of 1932. After her second tournament that next April people were complaining that an amateur like Babe wasn’t allowed to play and sadly that disqualified her from the tournament. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">After that Babe just continued to play golf in certain tournaments. Then she met George Zaharias who was a famous wrestler. After getting to know him they then got married-in 1938-and George kept control and managed her career. That next year Babe founded Ladies Professional Golf Association. This was very helpful to women who played professional golf. Making this association led her to the award of Women Athlete of the Century. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In the April of 1953 cancer was found in her tissue. Luckily it was found soon enough to be removed and she was able to continue tournaments for a year. She was able to play for a cancer fund. Then in 1955 they found the cancer again. This time, they weren’t able to treat it or remove it. But before she died in September 1956 she created a trophy for outstanding women athletes. After that she died in the John Sealy Hospital. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">~Emily R
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